Wednesday, June 20, 2012

TechCrunch | Google+ Opens Its API To Flipboard, Users Will See Google+ Integration Soon

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Google+ honcho Bradley Horowitz announced one more Google+ partner at LeWeb today, tablet news app Flipboard. Flipboard joins?Buddy Media,?Hootsuite, Context Optional, Hearsay Social, Involver and Vitrue as a Google+ ?trusted? partner.

The API will soon allow Flipboard?users to Google+ comment on and +1 Flipboard items, in addition to sending individualized pieces of content to Google+ Circles. ?It works like it should,? said Horowitz, ?Flipboard has done an amazing job. ?

Google+ has been infamously slow in opening its API to the public, so this is a small, but monumental baby step in the history of the product. When asked what was taking them so long, Horowitz was defensive, ?We squeezed a decade of social networking history into 11 months.?

So will it be a year before they have a full public API? We?re assuming that Google will probably announce an exact date for all access at Google i/o, instead of (yet) another partner.


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